Alan Turing: Centenary Lectures
Alan Turing: Centenary Lectures
Oxford University
Alan Mathison Turing was born on 23 June, 1912 - exactly one hundred years before this weekend meeting which celebrates his life and achievements. Although most well-known for his work at Bletchley Park in the pioneering days which saw the birth of modern practical computing; Turing had achieved fame well before the second world war, with a seminal account of theoretical computation and his solution to the Entscheidungs problem. An Olympic-class marathon runner, whose refusal to conform to the narrow sexual standards of the day led to persecution and an early death - Turing did fundamental research on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Programming and even Mathematical Biology. This weekend attempts a rounded view of a polymath, one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century, his life and his times.
Morphogenesis Then and Now
Philip Maini, Oxford University, gives a talk for the Alan Turing Centenary weekend.
Oct 22, 2012
43 min
Congruent Worlds: Turing, Lovelace and Babbage
Doron Swade, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, gives a talk for the Alan Turing Centenary weekend.
Oct 22, 2012
49 min
What Alan Turing might have discovered
Stephen Wolfram, founder and CEO of Wolfram Research and creator of Mathematica, gives a talk for the Alan Turing Centenary weekend.
Oct 22, 2012
51 min
Turing in the History of Software
Cliff Jones, Newcastle University, gives a talk for the Alan Turing Centenary Weekend. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
Oct 22, 2012
39 min
Turing in the age of the Internet and the quantum computer
Samson Abramsky, Oxford University, gives a talk for the Alan Turing Centenary weekend. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
Oct 22, 2012
51 min
Decidability: The Entscheidungs problem
Robin Whitty, London South Bank University, gives a talk for the Alan Turing Centenary weekend. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
Oct 22, 2012
45 min
Turing and the Public Consciousness: Turing 2.0(12)
Sue Black, University College London, Turing and the Public Consciousness: Turing 2.0(12). Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
Oct 22, 2012
22 min
Welcome Address
Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
Oct 22, 2012
3 min